Bernt Rainer Wahl was born 1960 in Santa
Monica, California. He was first introduced to computers in a pilot program
at the Lawrence Hall of Science at U.C. Berkeley (1972). His first first
personal computer was an Apple I (1976) which was put together by a group
kids from component parts, thus making them the first kids to have an Apple
Computer. He received his B.A. degrees in mathematics and physics from the
University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of the software
package Chaos: Mathematics for the 21st Century. Bernt Wahl was responsible
work on the whole book.

Bernt Wahl is involvements include: multimedia projects-the
first was to teach calculus (1981), work for the Olympic Committee (1984),
an original member of the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (1984), participate
on the America Cup's team Heart of America (1986), help in teaching one
of the first chaos classes (1987), found Dynamic Software (1987) , start
Wahl St. Computer Renting and Leasing (1989), start the Berkeley NeXT Users
Group (1990) serve as subject coordinator for the National Educational Film
Festival (1992) and is active in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, sailing, film
making and Ham radio. Future projects include a documentary on fractal geometry
and a children's book.

Peter Van Roy was born 1960 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
and is a citizen of Belgium. His first computer experience was at the age
of twelve where he program in Waterloo FORTRAN IV. In 1975, Peter got into
microcomputing by configuring the Netronics Elf II. He added hardware multiply-divide
and a random number generator to this machine. In 1980 he built a Forth
compiler for the machine, which marked his departure from hardware into
software. He received his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of the software
package FractaSketch. Peter Van Roy was responsible for much of the discussion
of the linear fractal section ( Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter
7, Chapter 9).

Peter Van Roy is currently Member of Research Staff at
Digital Equipment Corporation's Paris Research Laboratory (DEC PRL) in Paris,
France. Previously he was a member of the Aquarius and BAM projects at U.C.
Berkeley where he was instrumental in the development of software and hardware
implementations of the computer language Prolog. He developed the PLM and
Aquarius compilers and helped develop the PLM and VLSI-BAM processors. Aquarius
Prolog and the VLSI-BAM define the current state of the art in software
and hardware implementations of Prolog. Aquarius Prolog is one of the world's
highest performance fully functional Prolog systems. Peter Van Roy is currently
leading the Proteus project at DEC PRL, which is developing a compiler for
the LIFE language, a powerful and elegant generalization of Prolog. His
research interests are high performance implementation of declarative languages,
logic programming, constraint programming, compiler design, fractal geometry,
and computer architecture.

Michael Larsen was born 1962 in Boston. His first programming
experience was in second grade programming FOCAL on a PDP-8 at the local
high school. He received a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in mathematics
from Princeton.

Michael Larsen is the author of the software package MandelMovie.
Michael Larsen was a member of the United States Mathematics Olympic Team
(1977-1980). He now teaches mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.
He interests include reading science fantasy, baroque music, and juggling.
Michael Larsen was responsible for much of the discussion of the Mandelbrot
set and Julia set section ( Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 10).

Eric (Doc) Kampman was born 1960 in Manhassett, New York.
He was first introduced to programming using com hex with a PAIA synthesizer
in 1977. Eric (Doc) Kampman did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering
and music composition at the University of Colorado, Bolder. He is the author
of the software package Fractus: IFS. He is now on the programming team
at Farallon Computing. His interests include computer music and computer
animation. Eric (Doc) Kampman was responsible for the IFS section ( Chapter
6).

Laura Kelly Gonzalez was born 1967 in
Mountain View, California. She received her B.A. from the University of
California at Santa Barbara and her Masters from California State University
at San Francisco in English. She taught English at Mills College and is
presently a tech- writer at IBM. Her interest include writing fiction literature
and nature. Laura was instrumental in editing the book and putting it into
a connected form.

Lesili Bodine - co-authored 'Diffusion
Limited Aggregation' section (Chapter 6). She is presently finishing her
Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Peter Broadwell - co-authored 'African
Settlement' section (Chapter 1). He is presently working at 3DO developing
interactive systems. He holds a B.A. and Masters in mathematics from the
University of California at Santa Cruz.

Thomas E. Brown - contributed to the continuity
of the ' Fractals in Our World' section (Chapter 1). He is presently pursuing
a M. Div. degree from Fuller Seminary. He holds a B.A. in History from the
University of California at Santa Cruz.

Francis Butler - help in the development
of the FractaSketch software. He is presently doing research in Slavic languages
at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in Slavic languages from
the University of California at Berkeley.

Steward Cowen - authored 'Newton's Method'
section (Chapter 6). He is presently working on a book on the same subject.
He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley,
its contents contain a considerable amount about Newton's Method.

Ken Crounse - co-authored 'Diffusion Limited
Aggregation' section (Chapter 6). He is presently finishing his Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jane Deng - co-authored 'Fractals in Our
Bodies' section (Chapter 1). She is concurrently pursuing a M.D. from the
University of California at San Francisco and a law degree from Bolt Law
School associated with the University of California at Berkeley.

Matthais Dobbertin - authored 'Trees and
Fractals' section (Chapter 3). He is presently studying the effects of acid
rain on the forests of Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in forestry from the University
of California at Berkeley.

Adragon De Mello - helped in the development
of the FractaSketch software. At age eleven he became youngest college graduate
in this century, receiving a B. A. in mathematics from the University of
California at Santa Cruz.

Ron Eglish - co-authored 'African Settlement'
section (Chapter 1). He is presently in Africa investigating the regions
mathematical systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the History of Conciseness Department
associated with the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Carl Hansen - help in developing mathematical
software solutions to the Hilbert curve ( Chapter 3) and the Weierstrass
curve ( Chapter 8). He received a B. A. in physics from the University of
California at Berkeley.

Susan Malberg - contributed in expressing
fractal terminology accurately in the ' Fractals in Our World' section (Chapter
1). She currently teaching mathematics at Berkeley High School. She holds
a master in mathematics from California State University at Hayward.

Karin Nunn - co-authored 'Fractals in
Our Bodies' section (Chapter 1). She is currently teaching at El Dorado
High School and is active in the drama company Shepherd's Theater and the
dance company Hinds' Feet. She holds a B. A. in Biology from the University
of California at Santa Cruz.

Joyce Tang-Boyland - contributed to 'Fractal
Arts - Perception' section (Chapter 1). She is presently finishing her Ph.D.
in cognitive psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kristina Wahl - help in the translation
of Latin phrases ( Chapter 1). At age fifteen she has become quite proficient
at English, German, French and Latin, as well as pursuits in classical music
and the arts.

Illustrator contributions:

Mauren Carey - illustrated 'Close-up Region
of the Heart' (Chapter 1). She is presently involved in the science illustration
program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Mauren runs a small
publishing and book binding operation in Santa Cruz.

Heather Meyers - illustrated 'Fractal Humor in Pop Culture'
(Chapter 1) and Romanesco Broccoli at Three Different Views' ( Chapter 4).
She is presently involved in the science illustration program at the University
of California at Santa Cruz. graduated. She has a B.A. in mathematics from
the University of California at Santa Cruz. Heather's interest include painting
and song writing.